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Sewer work is set to reduce pollution risk
PLANS for a £600,000 investment in village sewers will be unveiled to residents this week. Staff at water provider Severn Trent are inviting people living in Littleworth, near Worcester, to find out more about its project to connect 85 per cent
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County turn to Moeen and Thilan
WORCESTERSHIRE’S paper-thin bowling attack toiled to make inroads on day two of their LV= County Championship Division Two contest with Hampshire. The visitors resumed on 197-3 after a rain-affected first day and soon recovered from the loss of
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Artist Steve Noake auctions off chance to be immortalised as an artwork
CARICATURES for charity are on offer thanks to a Worcester artist. Steve Noake, of Canada Way, Lower Wick, is auctioning off the chance to be immortalised in your very own caricature in aid of Acorns Children’s Hospice, through online auction site
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Charity music festival hailed a great success
THE first charity music festival in Warndon has been hailed a success and is set to run again next year. The project, run by community group Engage4Life in partnership with Worcester Community Trust, raised £500 for the community by selling wristband
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Let’s celebrate all sports that we play
SOME sports are not fashionable, yet are played by a huge amount of people up and down the country. Angling, for example, is not to everyone’s taste but it is one of the most popular sports in the UK in terms of the number of those who participate
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Woman arrested as part of police response to badger cull
A WORCESTERSHIRE woman has been arrested on suspicion of theft and aggravated trespass, as part of the police response to the current badger cull. The controversial cull, aimed at tackling tuberculosis (TB) in cattle, is believed to have started
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Police hunt missing Tenbury Wells man
POLICE are appealing for information about a Tenbury Wells man, who has been missing for nearly a month. Glyn Frederick Morris, known as Fred, went missing on August 19, after telling his brother he was going on some sort of training for a fortnight
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Dunkley in England 'C' defeat
KIDDERMINSTER Harriers central defender Chey Dunkley was part of the England ‘C’ team that were edged out 1-0 by Latvia Under 23s in Jelgava. The 21-year-old, who has played every game for Harriers this season, completed 90 minutes for Paul Fairclough
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'I want justice - even from beyond the grave'
A CRITICALLY-ill cancer patient suing the police for wrongful arrest may not live to see the verdict. But Keith Johnson aged 49, of Warndon, Worcester, wants justice, even from beyond the grave, after he was diagnosed with bowel cancer in July
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Massive £100m Worcester revamp set for approval
AMBITIOUS plans for the biggest regeneration project Worcester has ever seen have been recommended for approval, it has emerged. Worcester City Council will make a decision over the £100 million homes and leisure complex off Sherriff Street next
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Nti enjoying status as City’s new hero
IT hasn’t taken long for Daniel Nti to become the new darling of the Worcester City team. The 20-year-old has made himself an instant hit with three goals in the four games he has played for the club so far this season. Fans love a goalscorer
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Women can apply for town grants
WOMEN students who live in Upton-upon-Severn, or whose parents do, can apply for grants towards the cost of their education. The Upton-upon-Severn Education Foundation was set up in the early 18th century to encourage the education of girls in
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Youngsters celebrate their first graduation
YOUNGSTERS donned caps and gowns at an Evesham nursery to celebrate their very first graduation. The children at Busy Bees in Evesham celebrated the graduation of the pre-school class of 2013 on Tuesday. Each child was presented with a scroll
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Founder helps as new performance arts centre opens
BUDDING stars of the stage at an independent school will be returning from the summer break to a state-ofthe-art set-up. Dodderhill School, near Droitwich, officially opened its new performance arts centre earlier in the summer with the help of
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Research into schoolchildren
e better at reading than their Welsh peers, but may be less happy, according to new research. The study, by Cardiff University, also reveals that from the age of three, youngsters in England make faster progress in literacy than those in Wales
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New paved walkway is a big hit with pupils
A MUDDY walkway taken by youngsters heading to a Worcestershire school has been paved over, creating a new rural link between the village and the primary school. The path to Chaddesley Corbett Endowed Primary School, near Kidderminster, is also
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Professor is shortlisted for top award
A PIONEER in her field of psychology at the University of Worcester has been shortlisted for a prestigious award. Professor Elizabeth Peel has been nominated for the 2013 British Psychological Society Book Award after cowriting a student textbook
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Impressive students in the final of competition
BUDDING Brunels at Pershore High School have won a place in the final of a prestigious contest. Talented students staked their claim on the shortlist by wowing judges at the National Science and Engineering Competition. Jonathan Drinkwater,
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Firm helps college transform ICT site
STATE-of-the-art technology is helping students through their studies thanks in part to a Worcester-based business. Internet services provider, names.co.uk, has joined forces with Worcester College of Technology as part of a new Support Local Education
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Gardener’s bequest is life-saver for charity
YOUNGSTERS have the chance to become equipped with life-saving training for free following a generous bequest of amarket gardener. St John Ambulance is giving free first aid tuition to students in years five, eight and 10 through its young first
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Gove rejects primary school places claim
EDUCATION Secretary Michael Gove hasdismissedclaims that there would not be enough primary school places for pupils in two years’ time. Mr Gove said there were no problems with primary school places this year and pledged that every child would
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‘Beautiful’ New Road’s new look is unveiled
IT may have taken four years from when the initial blueprints were drawn up to the keys being handed over last week, but Worcestershire now have their very own ‘Grand Design’. The wraps have been taken off the New Road club’s exciting £10million
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We are just not good enough
I FIND it strange that the Premier League is continually blamed for the failure of the England team. Every time the national team fails to do well at a major tournament, pundits are falling over themselves to point the finger at the amount of imported
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Murray may have to wait to win his Warriors place
SCOTLAND international Euan Murray will not automatically be Warriors’ first-choice at tighthead this season, according to Sixways director of rugby Dean Ryan. The former Northampton front-rower missed the weekend’s 32-15 defeat to Leicester Tigers
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Lovely setting, top teaching, fine facilities and happy pupils
WHO IS YOUR HEADTEACHER? Alastair Cook is the headteacher. He has taught in leading schools in America, Australia and Oxford, and also been the headmaster of prestigious prep schools in West Sussex and Kenya. He says that his current school
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We’re gun happy
SIR – 5,000 badgers will be shot (and hopefully killed, not wounded) in Herefordshire/ Worcestershire. Surely it would be more humane to inject the badgers with anti-TB vaccine? All deaths are tragic – mankind is gun happy. GEORGE COWLEY
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Sort it out, Nick
SIR – Nick Clegg said he’d reform the House of Lords. We all thought that meant it would be reduced to save money but instead, it seems, the numbers have been increased with people who give generously to the parties virtually buying their title
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Let’s be great again but without the power
SIR – When is this country going to stop being a poodle following the USA’s lead? For 250 years we ruled the roost, but we cannot do it these days. The so-called Great Britain that ruled the world is dead and gone, so let’s concentrate on our
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Immigration is a big part of the problem
SIR – I refer to Councillor [Neil] Laurenson’s letter ’We are in crisis, but it’s not immigration’ (Worcester News, August 21). He writes: “...only 11 per cent of new migrants have been allocated social housing, compared to 17 per cent of UK-born
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We are recruiting doctors from all over
SIR – While many of Britain’s brightest students are unable to get on medical courses at home, it may surprise many that we recruit doctors from some of the poorest countries in the world. The universities in these countries have few computers or
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Was nobody curious about this man?
SIR – Re your front page story ‘Body in flat for a month’ ( Worcester News, September 7). It’s shocking that a man in his 80s has been found after this long. How appalling that no one noticed him ‘missing’ or that nobody was curious as to
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We’ve been promoting Worcester for years
SIR – Re your story ‘Make more of history for future of tourism’ (Worcester News, September 9). Who says nobody promotes Worcester? Sixteen years ago, the Worcester Tourism Association promoted the idea of setting up training for professional
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September in the Rain/Malvern Theatres
WRITER John Godber presses this particular whelk shell to our collective ear and ssshh… the sound of the seaside breaks its waves on the shores of our senses. And not just any old seaside, either. For this is Blackpool some time during the 1950s
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Residents voice 'disgust' over Ketch roundabout plan
FURIOUS residents packed a meeting to voice their ‘disgust’ over a controversial revamp of a Worcester roundabout. Householders affected by the proposed expansion of the Ketch island said they were “disgusted” about being “kept in the dark” over
